The Green Initiative

Green jobs

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Curt Carnemark / World Bank

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Wu Zhiyi / World Bank

Danilo Pinzon / World Bank

Green jobs are central to sustainable development and respond to the global challenges of environmental protection, economic development and social inclusion. By engaging governments, workers and employers as active agents of change, the ILO promotes the greening of enterprises, workplace practices and the labour market as a whole. These efforts create decent employment opportunities, enhance resource efficiency and build low-carbon sustainable societies.

Projects and activities

ILO's support worldwide:

The role the ILO must take up is to promote the considerable potential for creation of decent work associated with the transition to a low-carbon sustainable development path and to minimize and manage the inevitable dislocation that will accompany it."

Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General

At least half of the global workforce - the equivalent of 1.5 billion people - is affected by the transition to a greener economy.